UN. ZAPATERO CALLS FOR MORATORIUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN 2015
Speaking to the United Nations in New York, the Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has called for a universal moratorium on the death penalty in 2015 as a first step towards its complete abolition.
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Speaking to the United Nations in New York, the Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has called for a universal moratorium on the death penalty in 2015 as a first step towards its complete abolition.
This was Zapatero’s second statement to the United Nations, the first was in 2004, and he spent most of his time urging the international community to comply with the Millennium Development Objectives, which has the target of reducing extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
This was Zapatero’s second statement to the United Nations, the first was in 2004, and he spent most of his time urging the international community to comply with the Millennium Development Objectives, which has the target of reducing extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: typicallyspanish.com, 26/09/2008)
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